Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

After returning to the camp, Lin Shuo briefly told Old Lady Zhao and the others that they should not go far when picking wild vegetables on the road in the future, and they should not leave the camp alone when resting.

The group hurried on their way, quickening their pace, hoping to get out of the wolf-infested forest as soon as possible.

The sun was shining brightly in the sky, and Lin Yinan was riding a horse through the forest.

The forest was filled with lush foliage and without a breath of cool air, and everyone was sweating profusely.

It was not until sunset that the Yun family guards found a flat place far away from the forest with a shallow stream.

Everyone agreed to stop here and rest for the night.

Old Mrs. Zhao asked Lin Shuo to take down the pot. There was also food for dinner. There was water nearby, so she planned to cook a pot of wild vegetable porridge for dinner.

Because of what happened at noon, after stopping, women and children were not allowed to dig wild vegetables on their own and were only allowed to move around the camp.

After a day of bumpy ride on horseback, Lin Yian and Lu Changqing collapsed directly on the oilcloth after getting off the horses, no longer clinging to Lin Yinan.

Lin Yinan carried a bow and arrow and prepared to patrol around the camp.

When passing by the Yun family camp, Lu Xueying was packing her things. Seeing her coming, she quickly took out a piece of dried meat from her bag and stuffed it into her hand.

Not far away, Zhu Jinhui stared at the two of them with sinister eyes.

Lu Xueying glanced at her sideways, and dared not say anything, "Good girl, take it and eat it."

Lu Yashuang, who was holding her belly, smiled and nodded at her.

Lin Yinan accepted the dried meat, thanked him, and left.

"What a nice little girl!"

Lu Xueying sighed and thought it would be great if they had not been engaged. It was just because Sanlang was unlucky.

Brothers Lin Yizhang and Lin Yisong were pulling four horses and a cow to drink water by the stream. Lin Shuo and several guards from the Yun family were holding shovels upstream, digging a small pool in the stream.

The stream is too shallow and can't hold much water, so it needs to be deepened to make it easier to get water.

"Anan, don't go too far." Lin Shuo warned her when he saw her.

"I'll just look around here."

Lin Yinan was walking in the forest when suddenly, a fruit with thorns fell from a tree and hit her on the head.

Looking down, this thing looked familiar.

After stepping on the fruit a few times, an oval fruit with a brown skin and a smooth and hard shell was revealed. It was a chestnut.

Lin Yinan looked up and saw a patch of chestnut trees that had been growing in the forest for who knows how long, and their branches were full of thorny fruits.

Chestnuts are high in starch and contain nutrients such as protein, fat, and sugar, so they can be used to replace grains.

She bent down and picked up a few chestnuts and held them in her hand, preparing to go back and ask everyone to pick them up together.

"What are you picking up?"

Lin Yinan was so focused on picking up the items that she was startled by him unexpectedly.

Yun Mo walked out of the forest with two of his men, with a few pheasants hanging around their waists.

"Chicken." She said unhappily.

Yun Mo looked up and around when he heard that, his eyes suddenly lit up.

He turned around and ordered his men, "Go back and get some sacks, and call everyone in the camp here."

Lin Yinan picked the largest tree with the most chestnuts and climbed up to claim his sovereignty.

“This tree is mine.”

"I'll go up and help you."

Yun Mo leaped up and landed on a branch that was higher than Lin Yinan.

Without waiting for Lin Yinan to refuse, Yun Mo stood on the branch and shook it vigorously.

The chestnuts with thorns on them fell from the tree one by one, and several of them hit Lin Yinan's head and back, making her grimace in pain.

When the tree was shaken enough, Yun Mo flew over and used his sword to cut off the stubborn chestnuts on the branches. Soon, there was no fruit left on the tree.

"How is it?" He landed beside her and asked with a smile.

His smile was as bright and deep as the sunshine, as if it could draw people in and make them unable to look away.

Lin Yinan curled his lips, "Very good!"

After getting her affirmation, Yun Mo felt as if his chest was filled with honey. He flew towards the remaining trees in one go.

By the time the people from the camp arrived, Yun Mo had almost shaken all the chestnuts off the tree.

A lot of them were also peeled out around Lin Yinan.

Chestnuts are prone to infestation by insects and cannot be stored for long periods of time, so she peeled them and put some into her space. She then discussed with Lin Yiheng about storing the leftover chestnuts in her space.

"Oh my god, so many chestnuts?"

Old Mrs. Zhao was overjoyed. She came up and kicked the chestnuts on the ground one by one.

Liu Zhaodi wiped her tears and choked up, "Now I don't have to worry about going hungry anymore."

God knows how worried she was about not being able to feed so many children after the children's father died. She only dared to eat a few bites of biscuits every day.

"So many chestnuts! They are so expensive when they are sold at the entrance of the academy." Su Yunyan sighed, and then said to his two brothers, "Big brother, second brother, pick them up quickly and go back to let mother make sugar-roasted chestnuts."

Seven-year-old Su Yunrui was the most enthusiastic, "Third brother, I'll help."

Except for Yun Erlang who was injured and unable to move, and a few guards who stayed behind, everyone else joined the chestnut picking team.

In the end, each family picked up almost two sacks of chestnuts. If it were not for the fact that they could not carry them all and it was getting late, they would have wanted to continue picking.

Old Mrs. Zhao put the flour paste that she had taken out to make wild vegetables back into the pot.

At dinner time, the camp was filled with the aroma of chestnuts, boiled and roasted over the fire.

The most extravagant family was the Su family. In order to satisfy her son's appetite, Zhu Jinhui made sugar-roasted chestnuts.

Su Yunzhi brought a big bowl to Lin Yinan.

Lin Yinan ate two and shared them with the other children, including Liu Yu who got five.

After the meal, the Yun family guards came over and said that they had set up four simple sheds not far from the camp, and everyone could line up inside to wash up.

Lin Yinan was just about to build one himself. The Yun family really knows how to behave.

After a whole day's travel, her clothes were wet and dry, and there were white marks on her black clothes.

At night, several families also arranged people to be on duty, and the Yun family also arranged two more guards.

In the middle of the night, Lin Yinan was awakened by the howling of wolves.

She sat up and listened carefully. The wolf howling was still some distance away from them.

The night watchmen stood guard with knives in hand and waited for an hour before the wolf howls gradually faded away.

It was only past midnight when Lin Yinan fell down and continued to sleep.

The next day, when Lin Yinan got up, he saw Old Lady Zhao stewing chestnut chicken in a big pot.

"Grandma, where's the chicken?"

Old Mrs. Zhao smiled happily.

"It was sent by Sanlang of the Yun family. It weighs at least five or six kilograms. He said that the howling of wolves scared the wild animals last night and they ran towards our forest. Before daybreak, he and his men hunted a lot of wild animals and brought them back. We gave each family a chicken."

A hint of doubt flashed across Lin Yinan's eyes, but he didn't ask any more questions and got up to take care of his personal physiological problems.

Lin Yinan ate three full bowls of delicious pheasant stewed with chestnuts.

Eat and drink enough and continue on your way.

At noon, they met the people from Linjia Village who had been separated from them in a flat forest.

Seeing everyone lying or sitting on the ground, all of them had sad faces, the children were not crying or making a fuss, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.